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Updated: August 16, 2024
Something had entered into her life of which no subsequent empoverishment could rob it: she glowed with the same rich sense of possessorship that once, as a little girl, she had felt when her mother had given her a gold locket and she had sat up in bed in the dark to draw it from its hiding-place beneath her night-gown. At length a dread of Evelina's return began to mingle with these musings.
She had a sense of deeper empoverishment of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. It was indeed miserable to be poor to look forward to a shabby, anxious middle-age, leading by dreary degrees of economy and self-denial to gradual absorption in the dingy communal existence of the boarding-house.
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